ELEMENT in a Sentence

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For ELEMENT, below is one of 213 sentences:
The leading trait in his character was meanness; and if there were any other element in his nature, it was made subject to this.

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 Meanings and Examples of ELEMENT
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element
 n.  a part of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristic
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  Not only did the romantic aura of the dashing blockader hang about him but there was also the titillating element of the wicked and the forbidden.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
3  Lily was in her element on such occasions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4  To Lily this attitude was the most ominous, because the most perplexing, element in the situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
5  These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
7  But, doubtless, this noble savage fed strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air; and through his dilated nostrils snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
8  Most of them walked into the water as though into a native element.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
9  Grandmother Majauszkiene had lived in the midst of misfortune so long that it had come to be her element, and she talked about starvation, sickness, and death as other people might about weddings and holidays.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  Some ran furiously to the water's edge, beating the air with frantic gestures, while others spat upon the element, to resent the supposed treason it had committed against their acknowledged rights as conquerors.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
11  The fiercer element had cropped the verdure of the plain, which looked as though it were scathed by the consuming lightning.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
12  Bad as all slaveholders are, we seldom meet one destitute of every element of character commanding respect.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  The leading trait in his character was meanness; and if there were any other element in his nature, it was made subject to this.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
15  By the side of this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social symptom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
Example Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
16  The chronological sequence gives the book an element of structure.
17  There is an element of compulsion in the new scheme for the unemployed.
18  Honesty is a vital element of her success.
19  It introduced an element of randomness to the situation.
20  I feel out of my element talking about politics.
21  The kettle needs a new element.
22  Practical work will form a major element of the syllabus.
23  There was an element of ambiguity in the president's reply.
24  Fitness has now become an important element in our lives.
25  The children are really in their element playing on the beach.
26  The assault element, led by Captain Ramirez, opened up from their right flank.
27  Each element is mathematically coupled to its neighbours.
28  He had one potentially decisive factor in his favour: the element of surprise.
29  There is a strong element of mysticism in his poetry.
30  There was certainly an element of truth in what she said.